I was pretty damned shocked listening to Miss Kitty spitting and spewing all of this Iran hate last night. I wonder how much Bolton is paying them....
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/04/ldt.01.html<snip>
DOBBS: Tonight, Iran's radical Islamist government is defying the entire world and working to restart a nuclear program that would help it develop nuclear weapons.
The United States immediately warned Iran it could face additional measures to restrain its nuclear ambitions, but stopped short of saying just what those measures might be. Kitty Pilgrim reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KITTY PILGRIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is taunting the world by starting up the country's nuclear program again. This the most radical in a series of provocative moves.
In recent weeks he has threatened to wipe Israel off the map and denied the holocaust even happened. Last fall, Ahmadinejad shocked the world community by giving blistering anti-American speeches at the United Nations. These are not just the rantings of a radical Islamist. The threat is real. Iran has a missile, the Shahab-3, that has a range of 750 miles, Capable of hitting Israel, and has a stated desire to dominate the region.
ROBERT EINHORN, CTR. FOR STRATEGIC & INTL STUDIES: Iranians have decided to keep moving forward, and they've decided that they're going to test the international community to see what they can get away with.
PILGRIM: Iran sent a letter to the U.N. watchdog group in Vienna, the IAEA, saying it is starting the nuclear program. Last year, on her first trip to Europe as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice played down the option of an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
She supported European diplomatic efforts to bring Iran into line. Those efforts have now utterly failed.
RAY TAKEYH, "THE RISE & FALL OF RAD. POL. ISLAM": I never thought the European nuclear negotiations were going to succeed in terms of their ability to have some sort of a viable disarmament package. I suspect this issue will make its way from one international institution to another one, and soon it may end up as a purview of the U.N. Security council.
PILGRIM: Although it is unlikely Russia, China or any other combination of unaligned countries would support any action against Iran at the United Nations.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PILGRIM: The U.S. Treasury Department today announced it was freezing assets on two Iranian companies, Novan Energy (ph) and Mussab (ph) Energy Company, the front companies for the atomic energy organization of Iran. For now that seems the sum total of action the United States has been willing to do other than wait for European negotiations to grind on. Lou?
DOBBS: Thank you very much, Kitty Pilgrim.
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